Unenlightened thinking: Steven Pinker’s embarrassing new book is a feeble sermon for rattled liberals
To think of this book as any kind of scholarly exercise is a category mistake. The purpose of Pinker’s laborious…
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Othering, micro-aggressions and subtle prejudice: growing up black and British
Afua Hirsch’s memoir Brit(ish) adds a new chapter to the body of work on race in the UK
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Sexless in space: the post-apocalyptic novels re-imagining the future of gender
In these fictions, the future has caught up with “those of gender-fluid persuasions”.
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Thatcher’s long shadow: has the “miserablist” left exaggerated her legacy?
A new book argues that Britain is far from the “neoliberal nightmare” decried by Corbynites.
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A Lab of One’s Own: the forgotten female scientists who shed stereotypes about women’s abilities
Every woman in this book deserves a biography of her own.
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Nightmare on sea: a strange, once-forgotten history of the Kent coast is a cult favourite
David Seabrook’s All the Devils are Here was first published in 2002 to relative indifference – but is beloved by…
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Everything I Know About Love is a shockingly intimate memoir from former sex columnist Dolly Alderton
This is not the story of a “bored and sad and lonely” girl, but something much better – a wonderful…
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How one man risked execution to produce some of the world’s most sought-after coffee
Dave Eggers’ latest book explores how American-Yemeni businessman Mokhtar Alkhanshali went from working in a Honda factory to creating an…
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